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Monday, February 10, 2014

The title from this
week's email is in honor of the Less-Active that we work with, Brother Hill. He
is awesome and he says that (the title) at least once every time we meet with
him and his wife. They are such awesome people! We absolutely love them. Now...
To get them to church. :D He was ON the high council. It's just silly. Come to
church.

So this week has been
fantastic. One day in particular stands out this week... WEDNESDAY. So, Tuesday night
we're all stoked cause we have 8 appointments scheduled for Wednesday. EIGHT
APPOINTMENTS! We woke up the next morning, and it was a frozen TUNDRA outside!
The wind was blowing so hard and it had been snowing since the night before.
And guess what. People used that dang weather as an excuse and every one of our
appointments fell through!! The only on that really didn't was Alexis, but she
just asked to move the appointment to later that night.

So at this point, I'm
just like "alright. Obviously, the Lord has a different plan for us
today." And by golly he did! We tracted in that crazy weather (yes, yes we
did) and taught the restoration, found an awesome family that just moved here
and is "church shopping", and stopped by a couple people we haven't
met with in a while and got to have lessons with them. So, even though they all
fell through, we still got to teach 5 lessons that day - but only one with
someone we had originally planned on! So that was awesome.

So, our investigators……..Darlene
was doing really well for a long time, right? Well, she hasn't been reading the
Book of Mormon and she's really hung up on the fact that her baptism wasn't
done the correct way or by authority. Which, if she was reading and praying
about the Book of Mormon this wouldn't be an issue. So we're going to have to
do an intervention, because we only have one more lesson to teach! Ruh-roh! But
we talked a lot about baptism and what's holding her back from setting a date
and what it comes down to is that she is NOT READING AND PRAYING about the Book
of Mormon.

Jay IS doing really
well! We had a sweet lesson with them on Thursday, talking about Enduring
to the End and a review of the Gospel of Christ. He got a lot of his concerns
cleared up, and the awesome part was that we hardly had to say much at all...
It was just him and Sister Bryant talking about things. It was so good, the
Spirit was so strong. We talked a little bit more about baptism too, and
encouraged him to ponder on a date. Speaking of "ruh-roh", they have
a dog that looks exactly like Scooby-Doo. We love their family. A lot.

Then there's ALEXIS!
She is awesome!! We love her! She is so sassy haha. We taught her the
restoration the other day and she said the prayer at the end. After it was done
the spirit was CRAZY STRONG!! We didn't say anything and just let her think...
And then she just sat staring at the floor and goes "Huh..." and
looks up at us and goes "....Hi." Hahaha. She was like "I just
feel like this huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders..." Uh, yeah!
Prayer will do that for ya! Anyways. She came to church yesterday and got a
pretty big answer to her prayers. She said the night before she had said in her
prayers "I think it's true but I just want proof..." And then during Sunday School
they talked about how the style of writing was so typical Hebrew that there's
no way Joseph Smith could have come up with it on his own... We look over at
her and she just looks up and says "Okay, I hear you!" Haha she's
awesome. Also, she'll just text us randomly all the time and give us updates.
The other day she goes "So, you pray about this book, get revelation on
it, get baptized, and then what?? I've been reading my little teaching book
thing..." Meaning her Restoration Pamphlet haha.

ALSO... EXCITING
UPDATE! We finally met with Pinky and Bill again! FINALLY! And when we were
talking to them Pinky was like "We have just had bad luck for like 12
years straight and I keep praying and asking Him to give me direction help me
through this..." And she said she was just looking for peace and comfort.
And so we shared with her that we had prayed and felt very strongly to go see
her. We told her that the Gospel has provided support, guidance, direction, and
peace to us and the other people we teach. Then we said, "Pinky, this is
God answering your prayer." She was quiet for a second and then looked
over at Bill and said "Well, I think we should try to make it out to their
church sometime, huh Bill?" HAHAAA
YES. So we'll keep ya updated on them.

Well, time's gone
again... Haha but READ THE SCRIPTURES! In church they were saying that the
Scriptures are like letters from home... How? Well, where is our REAL home?
Heaven, right? And if the Scriptures are God's words... Then they're just
letters of support and encouragement and direction from our Heavenly Father. :D

Also, Pinky quote of
the day:

"The sisters
aren't going to buy the house ya big DOPE!" To her husband.

Love you ALL!

Sister Perrenoud

Also, President Vellinga does this thing where he puts Peanut Butter and Miracle whip

on bread and calls it a sandwich. We wanted to try it, so... We did.

And it was nasty....... Sorry President!

Mom tortured "encouraged" the boys to make Valentines to Send to Sister Sue - They did really well!

Monday, January 27, 2014

So this week has been crazy good. I guess I
haven't updated anyone on the past couple of weeks, huh? Well... Nothing too
crazy has gone on. So I'll just focus on this week.

We've started working with a less-active
sister in our ward. She is the SWEETEST THING EVER! She got baptized like 20
years ago and has never been back to church though. So. She really doesn't know
much about the gospel but we're hoping we can help her to know more! :)

Darlene is doing really well. She read up to 1
Nephi 8 in the few days since we had met with her, and she retained it all
really well!! Like she was "Laman" this, and "Nephi" that,
and "Well I can see why he would hesitate in killing Laban..." We
were amazed. She is doing really well. She just needs to come to CHURCH! We
took her on a church tour to see if that would help her be more comfortable
with coming. We invited another sister from the ward and they got along really
well. The spirit was SO STRONG! Especially at the baptismal font. qI think she
totally knows that she's getting baptized, cause everything she said was
"when" and not "if". You know? Like, instead of saying
"So, if I do that I would..." It was "So, when I do that I
would..." I WAS DYING! It was so exciting! But she still didn't come to
church... Hopefully she just wasn't feeling good.

Dave has not shown up to lessons twice. We
stopped at his house the Saturday after the first time, and he said
he got another job and was just really busy. Then he sent us home with a dozen
oatmeal raisin cookies (DELICIOUS OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES) and hugged us before
we left. Haha I didn't even know what to do with myself. So then we tried to
meet with him again this past saturday and he didn't show up to that
either. :( We were sad. But I am not giving up on him.

We also started teaching a guy named Jay. We
are so excited about him! His girlfriend is less-active but she still has a
fairly solid testimony. At the end of our restoration lesson I think she really
saw the need for her to be better and start coming back to church more
regularly. He's not comfortable with prayer at all, so we're meeting with them
again tonight and focusing a lot on prayer. Oh yeah, they also live together
soo... Wedding!

We have found some
fantastic new people lately too. There are a lot of potentials, but the one I'm
most excited about is named ASHLEY! So after our exchange Saturday me
and Sister Beaudoin were trying to figure out where to go to tract. We had
Virginia street come to mind, so we were like "hokay" and went to
virginia street. It had been snowing and blowing particularly hard that day, so
we grabbed our shovels out from the back of our car and offered free
shoveling/book of mormons to people. Finally, we got to this house, and we just
started shoveling their driveway. We thought nobody was home so we were just
going to leave a Mormon.Org card. We were almost done when two people come out,
a brother and sister, who looked like they were in like their 20's. They were
saying it was nice of us to do that for them or whatever, and then the dad came
home and he started freaking out over it too. Anyways, they ended up inviting
us in for hot chocolate (since we explained the no coffee thing). Ashley asked
us the million dollar question of how Mormons were different from Baptists.
Turns out she's been looking for a new church to go to. She was raised Baptist
and wants a church that has the same values she grew up with, but she doesn't
like the Baptist churches here. SO WE'RE TEACHING HER WEDNESDAY! It was
seriously a miracle. That was some real divine intervention. Also, their dad's
name is Lemuel. CAN YOU SAY PREPARED.
We're bringing him a Book of Mormon on Wednesday.

Lem, when we were leaving, he was like
"You guys are welcome at our home any time. And if you ever need anything
at all, just let us know and we'll be over in a moments notice! Hey, we'll have
to feed you dinner!" And all this crazy stuff.

So this week has been so good. The church is
SO TRUE! I love watching peoples lives change because of it. It's such a
blessing to witness it. READ YOUR SCRIPTURES! All of you! They make a
difference! Hahaha love you all!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Kaitlin was not able to write this week as normal because the Library was closed on Monday due to Martin Luther King Day so she sent a short email. I had to share a small portion of it.............................

I have some pretty good stories this week. Hopefully I get the chance to write them out, but I want to make sure that you hear one in particular so I'm typing it now.

I gobbled at turkeys with president Vellinga.

Haha during my interview he was like "Have you ever gobbled at those turkeys?" (There are wild turkeys that walk around behind our church sometimes.) and I was like "No..." So after my interview he took me, Sister Beaudoin, and a couple Elders from my district and gobble at them. So I did. And they all gobbled back haha!! All of them at the same time! And I turned around to look at President and his face was PRICELESS. His jaw dropped to the ground and his eyes were wide open hahaha.

Anyways, that's my gem for the week. Love you so so so so much! Thanks for the letters!

Monday, January 13, 2014

We were locked in our apartment for a straight 48 hours until
the cold went away. When we finally
left, it was.... Weird. I felt like I was leaving the MTC again, cause
basically we just did a lot of studying and watching The District DVD's. It was
also really good cause Sister Beaudoin and I worked a lot on our teaching companionship
and we feel a lot more prepared for the work.

On Wednesday, we were able to teach a couple people - which was
good - but nothing really has come of it. However, when we were tracting, we
came across this really sweet old guy who let us in just to tell us that he
respected us for what we do, although he does not believe the same way we do.
He then proceeded to tell us that when he and his wife were dating, and they
talked about marriage, she got scared of it and started hiding from him when
he'd come visit her at her work. Her friend told him she'd hide in the bathroom
and so one day he camped out outside of the bathroom and when she came out to
see if he had left he goes "Now you listen to me. I love you and I want to
marry you!" And he goes "And here we are, 47 years later." Haha
and then he gave us four oranges and we left.

ALSO! The Tuesday we were locked in our apartment we
got a referral from a member of the ward!! He met this lady and I guess she had
been taught like 20 years earlier by missionaries and she wanted to learn
again. Her name is Darlene. We met with her on Thursday. At first, when we
asked what her expectations were of meeting with us, she was like "Oh I
just wanted to meet you." We were like "Uhh... No." Anyways. She
was going to go to church with us on Sunday but she cancelled on us
because "she had a cough and it's worse in the mornings and she would be
embarrassed if she coughed all through church." Satan has his ways. But, we really feel like
she's ready to truly accept the Gospel this time. So we'll keep working with
her. Also, Sister Beaudoin was so
excited about making an appointment with Darlene after the referral came in
that she ran over and jumped on her bed. She whacked her head on the ceiling
hahaha. She is great.

On Friday we had a Zone Training Meeting. The one thing I
probably really learned the most from it was from what our Zone Leader talked
about. He said that there's a good missionary, who says "I'm going to
baptize everyone!" So basically "I'm going to do my work." Then
there's a better missionary who says "I'm going to do HIS work." But,
there's the BEST missionary who says "He does His work through me." I
loved that. I think that's something that hit both of us pretty hard. Something
we've been trying really hard to work on.

We ALSO got a new
investigator this week that we are BEYOND excited about! His name is Dave. We
taught him on Friday. He's a single dad so we met him at the Library in
Vermilion. He has two kids, William (8) and Luke (11). He's a really good dad
to them, and the day we met him he had just been laid off from work. He is the
nicest guy ever. The spirit was really strong talking with him, and I think he
really could see why he needs the gospel in his life!

There was also a baptism that night... So we invited him and his
boys to it. Just to see what it was like haha. At first he was like "no,
I'm pretty busy, I dunno..." and then SISTER BEAUDOIN looks at his kids
and goes "Hey boys, you wanna go see a BAPTISM?!" and they were all
"Yeah! Yeah! Dad please can we go!" Hahahaha. Winner! Him being at that baptism was definitely the
highest point of my mission so far. The Spirit was SO strong, especially while
Brother Landrygan was being baptized. You could tell Dave was really touched by
a lot of things. I was watching him like a hawk during the service, and praying
so hard that nobody would say anything off-the-wall! Haha cause that's how our
ward is. They say weird things. But, nothing too crazy was said (although they
did say something about W.O.W. and when we met with Dave earlier he had a
Coffee Thermos and smelled like Cigarette smoke) and he pointed out that a lot
of things we had talked about with him earlier had been mentioned during the
service. One Elder from our district asked what he thought of everything and he
was like "I actually came here a couple times quite a few years ago. I
just kept thinking 'I don't know why I ever left.'" SO good. Such a good night.

Also, the ward really reached out to him. He got along
especially well with the guy who just had been baptized. Sister Beaudoin said
that at one point she heard him ask "So... You feel like you found
something you had been looking for?" Which is one of the things he had
expressed to us earlier, is that he felt like all the other churches had
something missing. We are too excited
about him.

Also, I ran into my first basher yesterday. It was hard to
remember not to play his games and not to get worked up. He took every little
thing we said and twisted it and used it against us, and at one point he
started getting really condescending, saying we hadn't looked into other things
enough to really know. But, it only made me realize how much I do know. Every
time he was like "But you don't KNOW that!" My instant thought
wouldn't be "well maybe I don't." my instant thought was "I do.
I do know the things I'm telling this guy are true. I do." It just drew
out my testimony. He was annoying though haha.

Welp, I may or
may not have forgotten my camera at the apartment so no pictures this week but
there wasn't anything too exciting anyways. I'll make up for it next week haha.
I love you all! Things are going so well here and the pace is swiftly picking
up! We're going to the other sister's apartment today so that will be fun. They
live with some members. One sister is from my Zone in the MTC. They serve with
us in our ward. They are GREAT!

Monday, January 6, 2014

This week has been so
GREAT! But weird weather! Some days it's sunny and in the 40's and beautiful,
one day it was DUMPING snow all day long, last night it was raining, and today
it's supposed to drop so low below zero that our mission president is actually
not allowing us to leave our apartments at all for the next two days starting
at noon. Holy Moly.

There are so many good
things about this week I don't even know where to start! First, with some funny anecdotes.

First one is that when
Sister Beaudoin and I were tracting earlier this week, we go and knock on this
door. A guy opens it who can't be more than like 17, right? So I'm like
"is your mom or dad here?" and he's like "Nope." So I start
into our "Well we're missionaries..." Shpeal. He's pretty abrupt
about how not interested he is, but as he reaches for the Mormon.org card I
notice he has a ring on his left hand ring finger...Haha yep, the guy was
married and the owner of the house. Hahahahaha. I swear he looked like he
couldn't have been older than Marcus! He actually looked a little like Nick
Barton. Maybe that's where my judgement was off.

Second funny anecdote
was that we went to Brother Clapper's house again Saturday night. This guy is
seriously the best. He made us dinner! Slaved over it like all day long, we
called him at two to make sure he was still wanting to do it and he was like "Yep,
Turkey's in the oven!" So he made us like a mini thanksgiving dinner. He
said something about how the Potatoes were a little lumpy and he hoped the
stuffing was good, so I made a big deal over "Well, I'm from Idaho so I'll
be the potato judge!" I didn't know
you could goof up cooking potatoes. They
were seriously the nastiest things I had ever eaten in my life! Hahaha oh my gosh I just had to like choke
them down because we didn't want to hurt Brother Clappers feelings! As soon as
we were in the car, Sister Beaudoin looked at me and was like "So... Those
potatoes..." We both wolfed them down as fast as we could so we would be
able to just get it over with hahaha. On top of that, we were cramped in his
tiny apartment eating in his living room, watching him feed his little Mini
Dachshund half the turkey. Oh my gosh! He is the best.

Tuesday we found this
really sweet couple named Kay and Kathy. Kay is this hilarious guy who was
really interested in temples and Mormon.org, and Kathy,
his wife, let us in because she could tell we were freezing and she's a sweet
little grandma. We're going to do service with them and hopefully get to teach
them eventually!

Wednesday was nasty.
It was so crazy! The night before it had snowed for a little bit, and then all
of a sudden it just DUMPED on us on Wednesday. Like, it was constantly snowing
hard all day Wednesday. So we tried to go shovel tracting, basically offer a
message about the gospel and then when they said they weren't interested we
would be like "Well, we have some shovels with us and we would love to
shovel your driveway today! Just looking for service opportunities!" And
they either had a son/grandson coming to do it or they paid for it to be done.
I guess people didn't want to see girls in skirts to shoveling their driveways,
or maybe they didn't think we could... Anyways. Shovel tracting is a no-go. So
we just ditched our shovels at our car and tried to regular tract but everyone
was like "Go home, it's too cold for you to be out in this weather!! We
will talk about this later, you need to be somewhere warm!" SO LET US IN DANGIT.

So wednesday was
pretty... Eh. Haha. BUT we did get to teach the Hill's again! They are so
awesome! They need to get back to church! Brother Hill, before we left, said
"Well, do you like home made bread? Cause I baked some today and I made an
extra one cause I knew you were coming over!" Isn't he the best??

Wednesday night we
were supposed to have dinner with some members, but their son was in the ER
because of a kidney stone so they had to cancel. They're an older couple and
they have a couple kids living with them for medical/temporary purposes so we
decided Thursday morning that we would shovel their driveway. Sister Schultz
came out in a robe and told us to come in and drink hot chocolate when we were
done. She is seriously so sweet. I guess she posted some big thing about it on
facebook, one of her kids told us about it haha.

Thursday we had dinner
with the Hansens. They did pork with sauerkraut on it?? At first I was
concerned but it was actually really good! Try it! We were also able to make a
lot of really exciting appointments for this week.

FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB. We hardly did any tracting. Why? Cause we
were so busy teaching! We taught three less-actives, finally taught Charlotte
again, and taught a recent convert. We also got a couple more appointments for
this week, one with a former investigator! Which, he was great. His name is
Dave. He lives in Vermilion, and the Elders stopped by him a couple times and
then I guess just stopped? But he was in the former investigators section?
Anyways, he was genuinely happy to see a set of missionaries standing on his
porch. He almost seemed hurt that they had stopped coming to see him. And he
had just been laid off that day so I think he kind of recognizes that what we
have will help him out a lot. We were supposed to teach him tomorrow but that
probably won't happen anymore because of the weather haha! Hopefully we will be
able to reschedule though. Teaching
Charlotte... I was like in tears the entire time. She is so heartbroken about
her husband passing away. She keeps a picture of him on the kitchen table and
sits and talks to him. When she turned the picture around to show it to us, I
had to try with all my strength to not bawl my eyes out. It's a picture of her
husband that they took at a restaurant, so it looks like he's sitting across
from her at the table. And it really captured his personality! Anyways. She has
a lot of concerns with getting baptized, mostly that she doesn't feel like
she's a good enough person to be. Which we can see otherwise but we are all our
own harshest judge or however the heck that saying goes. We were exhausted after Friday. A LOT of
energy went into those we met with. Which was good! I felt good about it.

Remember Pinky and
Bill? They didn't come to church. I was so sad. We called them later that night
to make sure everything was good and they said they just couldn't come because
they were both really not feeling well. Darn it :( We are going to try and meet
with them this week and hopefully (HOPEFULLY) commit them to a baptismal date!
We really feel like that's the way to go.
Speaking of baptismal date, we committed someone to baptism this week
too! We were tracting and we walked past this girl. As we talked to her she
seemed really interested in the church, told us which house was her moms, and
said to go talk to her about it. So we did. She let us in and we taught her the
restoration. At the end, we started talking about the Book of Mormon. We had
her read the second to last paragraph of the introduction, and then I bore my
testimony of it and had her read the last one. When she read the last
paragraph, she was dead quiet but kind of had a smile on her face... She was
like "You guys will think I'm crazy, but when I read that last
paragraph... I dunno. I just got this warm fuzzy feeling. Right in my
heart." YAAAYYYYY!!! So we jumped
on it. We told her it was the spirit bearing witness of truth and asked her to
be baptized (after she's taken lessons and come to find out the truth for
herself that is) and she said she would! Her name is Tinettie. She is awesome.
Just trying to find the truth. My one
main goal here is to find an investigator from the Catholic church. St. Josephs
in particular. Everyone we've met from there is pretty set in their ways... I
want to [be the means to] convert one. Haha.

Welp, this week was so
good. This coming week will be even better. I am so excited for the people
we're teaching!

Love you all sooo so
so so much!

Sister Perrenoud

The things you find when you take over a long time Elder's apartment.............

Monday, December 30, 2013

Christmas was so good. We had lunch AND dinner at a member's house on Christmas Eve (two separate families though), and then we went caroling. SO MUCH FUN. We went with the two other sisters and the four Elders from our district.

As you all know, we were at the Tiemans for Christmas. Their son-in-law, Brother DeLeon, is the ward mission leader. After I got off the phone with you guys, they let us chill out and do pretty much whatever. They were playing Bananagrams so I joined in, and after we got sick of that we all played apples to apples. I felt right at home; Bananagrams and Apples to Apples Christmas day? Don't mind if I do.

That night we ended up teaching a lesson about the restoration to our neighbor upstairs. She had come in the door the previous day with a big printer so we carried it upstairs and offered to help her set it up the next day. She then said the Elders who had lived there before gave her a DVD of the Restoration but she didn't know how to work her DVD player. We set it up for her, taught her the first chunk of the Restoration, and then watched the DVD with her. The spirit was really strong! We made an appointment to come back and teach her again but we got a note from her Friday saying that she was absolutely not interested in learning more. That was kind of a bummer deal but we still love her!

Friday we had a big trainer/trainee meeting in Cleveland with everyone who came in this last transfer. So what I'm saying is, I got to see all my sisters from my MTC zone!! INCLUDING SISTER O'BANION! Gosh I just love her, she's so great.

This meeting was so good. I can't get over how dang inspired President Vellinga is, like I can't even handle it. He is great. One thing that he said to us, jaw clenched, pointing at us (not in an upset way but in a mockingly upset way...) "DON'T. BE. A LAZY. MISSIONARY." Me and Sister Beaudoin have tried really hard to make it so, even down to putting our shirts right side out in the laundry hamper. Everything President Vellinga says just makes me want to try so much harder to be a better missionary, which I guess is probably why he is the Mission President.

We went out tracting for like 45 minutes when we got back and we found some real gems! There was one guy who we told where we meet, asked if he wanted to meet with us more, and left a Book of Mormon with and he was like "yeah, we're new to the area so we're looking for a church to go to. We'll come sometime!" He didn't come. But still, exciting.

We went tracting again the next day and met soo many nice people! There was a guy we met named Ron and we're really excited about him too. He seemed really interested in the Book of Mormon and coming to church. That night we went and met some of the less-active families in our ward. They were all SO nice. I'm excited to work with them! THEN we taught a lesson to Brother Clapper. He is so sweet. Poor guy has been inactive pretty much his whole life, and missionaries have been working with him for months to get him to quit smoking. He wants sooo badly to get the priesthood and be able to go through the temple, but he needs to quit smoking and come to church!! So we talked about things we can do to help him be more motivated, and he said if we called in the morning before church to make sure he was up that would help. Five minutes before we were going to call him, he calls US and says "Okay Sisters, I'm up, I'll see you at church!" We get to church and he walks in with a PURPLE SUIT that had a corduroy suit jacket with it and this huge smile on his face. Best BEST person to see coming in those doors!! We want to see him get the priesthood before Sister Beaudoin finishes training me. Prayers and faith will do it!!

Last night, we finished tracting and came home for dinner. We looked at our plans and realized that we had made plans to stop by some potential investigators in Vermilion, but visit a sister from the ward at 8:00 in Amherst. Amherst and Vermilion are like 20 minutes away from each other and we're trying not to use a ton of miles... So we're like "well, maybe we need to re-do our plans." Sister Beaudoin was a genius and said we should pray about it. While she was praying, I had one of the potential investigator's names come into my head that we planned on visiting in Vermilion. Her name is Pinky. Well, not really but that's what she likes to be called. We had tried to meet her a couple nights before but nobody had been home, but the Elders said to REALLY follow up with her. When her name came into my head, it wasn't like a fleeting thought... It was like an overwhelming feeling. I can't even explain how powerfully it came into my head. I caught myself thinking "Okay, okay! We'll go see Pinky!!"

I told this to Sister Beaudoin and she was like "Huh, okay! Let's go see Pinky!"

About a half hour later we get to her house and it looks completely DARK. So I'm thinking "great, she's not even home." We were about to just pull back out of the driveway but Sister Beaudoin was like "Well, let's go knock just in case." We get to the door and WE CAN HEAR THE TV! Her husband came to the door and, long story short, we were able to teach both of them the restoration. (I recited the first vision for the first time... AHH!!) At the end of the lesson, we asked Bill how he was feeling and he goes "Uhh... Well.... Where do I go after this life?"

:O

They had just come home from Florida, cause they own a house down there and they're trying to sell their house here. BUT. When we were talking about the Holy Ghost, Pinky told us that when she was in the shower like ten minutes before we came over she heard someone say "Don't sell your house yet." And then we came over. And she goes "I bet you think I'm crazy." No Pinky. That is the farthest away from what we think.

I don't know if you're getting the vibe yet, but Pinky and her husband Bill are TOTALLY PREPARED!!! We are so excited! They said they'd come to church and then we could decide on a time to meet them again.

We got out of that lesson and Sister Beaudoin and I were like... Shocked?? Like I was just grinning like an idiot and she just kept saying "Oh my gosh. OOHH MY GOSH. What just happened. Oh my gosh." We are so excited about them.

Well, I guess that's it for this week. I love you all so much, late Merry Christmas and early Happy New Year to everyone! The Gospel is so true. I have never felt so close to my Father in Heaven. Alma 26:35-36 is about how I've been feeling since Pinky. LOVE YOU ALL!

Friday, December 13, 2013

So, Sunday was indeed awesome as everyone says. We got to watch Music and the Spoken word with all the sisters, then Sister Mariott from the general relief society president came to speak to all the sisters. Then we had a new sisters orientation, which was pretty much the same thing we've been hearing every day since we got here (aka dress code) pfffft boring. So then we had sacrament meeting at 2 as a zone which was cool but the COOLEST part was watching a video from a devotional that David A. Bednar gave to missionaries Christmas morning. It was like a punch in the face, like they don't distribute it to the church because it's so blunt that half the church would probably leave. The best thing I got out of it though was he said that sometimes we're too much like the cookie monster:

"I WANT COOKIE NOW! I WANT BAPTISM NOW!!"

Bahaha. So me and Sister O'Banion have had an awesome week for teaching this week. We taught a fake investigator who isn't our teachers acting like investigators. Our first time teaching her, she asked about things like polygamy and hard questions like that. Every time she asked her to read a scripture from the book of mormon she wouldn't even touch it. So our goal for the second lesson was for her to read the introduction from it on her own. AND SHE TOTALLY DID! We all took turns reading paragraphs of the introduction and then we left the book of mormon with her. AND SHE KEPT IT!! BOO-YAH!!

In other news, we decided that our district leader looks like Andy Bernard from the Office. Hahahahahahahahaha.

Gosh. I wish I had more dang time. I just don't!! But our zone is awesome. We're only going to Cleveland with four other sisters, and every one else is either going to Canada or Las Vegas.

Elder Lusk and Elder Bird left on Monday!!! I was so excited for them! We took an awesome picture of them with their arms around each other and me awkwardly standing to the side so that's fun.

Also, we had in-field orientation on Thursday. Which went from 8 in the morning till 5:30 at night. It was fun till about 4:30, and then I got really tired and sick of sitting that I wanted to be done. Then, the kid that said the closing prayer took another 9 1/2 hours to say it so it's all good.

ALSO!!! OH MY GOSH! Elder Christensen from THE DISTRICT videos TOTALLY CAME!! I was freaking out! It was like a freaking celebrity came to the MTC!

Okay. Well I'm hoping and praying that the computer won't kick me off before I get to send this.

Oh. And, on Tuesday, Elder Quentin L. Cook came and gave a Devotional to us!! And me and most of the people from our Zone sang a musical number in a choir and I was TOTALLY ON THE SCREEN. It was zoomed out a lot but still cool.

P.S everyone, the food is good for the first like two meals. And now it's just not. But, despite what everyone else said I would do, I have TOTALLY lost weight. Mostly because I've ran like four miles this week and two miles last week and walked all over kingdom come.

Anyways. My Zone is awesome. And I'm excited that I'll be going to Cleveland, but not excited for us to be split apart.

I love all you guys so much. SO MUCH! You're the best.

Love, Sister Perrenoud

Meeting up with friends Elder Tanner Lusk from the ward and Elder Taylor Bird

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D&C 38:32-33

"Wherefore, for this cause I gave unto you the commandment that ye should go to the Ohio; and there I will give unto you my law; and there you shall be endowed with power from on high... for I have a great work laid up in store, for Israel shall be saved, and I will lead them withersoever I will, and no power shall stay my hand."